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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Audiology

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  • Natural sounds possess temporal fluctuations crucial for auditory perception.
  • Hearing loss, even subclinical, can impair the coding of these temporal features.
  • Elevated extended high-frequency hearing thresholds (above 8 kHz) in normal audiogram listeners indicate basal cochlear damage and potential dysfunction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between extended high-frequency hearing and suprathreshold auditory processing.
  • To examine how cognitive factors, specifically working memory, moderate this relationship.
  • To understand the impact of subclinical cochlear dysfunction on temporal processing.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed frequency modulation difference limens (slow and fast rates) and backward masking thresholds.
  • Measured digit span (working memory capacity) in 44 normal-hearing listeners.
  • Correlated extended high-frequency hearing thresholds with auditory performance measures, considering working memory as a moderator.

Main Results:

  • Extended high-frequency thresholds alone did not directly predict auditory performance.
  • Working memory capacity, particularly backward digit span, moderated the association between high-frequency hearing and auditory processing.
  • Lower working memory was linked to poorer performance on fast-rate frequency modulation and higher backward masking thresholds, but not slow-rate modulations.

Conclusions:

  • Working memory capacity influences the perceptual impact of elevated extended high-frequency thresholds.
  • Individuals with lower working memory are more susceptible to auditory deficits from subclinical cochlear damage.
  • Cognitive resources may act as a compensatory mechanism against subclinical auditory impairments, especially in temporally demanding tasks.